he was the other option when people didn't feel they had enough confidence to vote for mitt romney this vote wasn't a vote to raise taxes but a vote to move forward with where we are going as amation and try to have bipartisan work. >>neil: i don't think we will get that. i am saying that they are miles apart. you can cover a lot of ground in a month and a half but you have a lot ground to cover, so, someone has to blink. i think the president, because the critics say he blinked two years ago, doesn't want to blink again. the irony is that two years ago when he opted to extend all the bush rates, he did so because the economy was too fragile to tamper with raising taxes at the time. it is more fragile now. the g.d.p. is actually lower now. so, what gives? >>guest: absolutely. the economy is still in a very fragile state and if we are going to continue a recover we l -- we cannot raise taxes. republicans cannot raise tax rates. that is damaging to them. >>neil: do they sense they have wiggle room on the deductions and allowances? and say the president is wrong on this, but the $1 trillio